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MPEIERS. PHOTO LIYHOGRAPH=R WASH NGTON 0 c Patented Nov. 16, I880;

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OHARLES J. GUSTAVESON, OF SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH TERRITORY.

HOPPLE.'

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 234,562, dated November 16, 1880.

Application filed September 17, 1880.

To all whom tt may concern Be it known that 1", CHARLES J. GUSTAVE- SON, of Salt Lake (lity, in the county of Salt Lake, Utah Territory, have invented anew and Improved Hopple; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

My invention relates to animproved hopple of the kind used for fettering animals to prevent their straying away, and to restrain their movements so that they may be easily caught in the field; and the improvement consists in i'etlock-bands connected to the ends of a chain by a simple, cheap, and durable means in a novel manner.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a plan view of a hopple constructed according to my invention, showing one of the fetlockbands buckled and the other unbuckled; Fig. 2. a sectional view of one of the i'etlock-bands with the connectinglink attached. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the same; and Fig. 4, a perspective view of the connecting link and pin detached.

The fetlock-bands AA are formed of a padstrap, B, and buckle-strap O, riveted together at aa a a and the pad-strap is skived and rounded at its ends to smoothly overlap each other. Filling pieces D E are interposed between the buckle-strap and pad-strap, all of which are held together by the rivets a a, and form a solid portion to the i'etlock band, at which point may be rigidly secured one end of the connecting chain F in the following manner: A spool-shaped pin, G is firmly held between the rivets a at, and also between a fold in the buckle-strap and the filling-piece E, so that the heads g g of the pin will be upon the outside of the strap, and will prevent the pin from being pulled out of place. The fold in the buckle-strap is prevented from spreading or enlarging by the rivets a a, arranged closely upon each side of it, and the pin Gr is thereby held firmly in place. The buckle-strap G is cut away to form a slit, 0, immediately opposite and across the pin G, through which opening (No model.)

the angular portion of a sector-shaped link, H, secured to the end of the connecting-chain F, passes. The pin G passes through the linkH at its angular portion, and holds it firmly in place against the walls of the slit 0, so as to give it the most limited movement. The links H are connected by a three-linked chain, F, the middle link, F, of which is a swivellink, to admit of the free movement of the fetlock-bands without twisting the chain. The segment portion of the link H will provide an enlarged curved portion, upon which the end links of chain F may play, to allow the chain full and free movement.

The ends of the buckle-strap are secured to the corresponding portions of the padstrap by rivets a a and may be buckled together by any suitable means. The segment-link is thus connected to the hopple-straps in acheap, simple, and effective manner. It is held rigidly by the pin and walls of the strap-opening c, and the links of the chain are by this means held a sufficient distance from the animals leg to allow the links an extended movement around the segmental portion of the fixed link without allowing it to rub and injure the animal.

Light wrought-iron links and pins only need be used in connecting the hopple-straps, and protruding malleable or cast metal eye-plates that are heavy, expensive, and more cumbersome, may be thereby dispensed with and the object attained by them secured.

WVhat I claim as new is In a hopple, the combination of the padstraps, the buckle-straps, the pins interposed transversely to and between them, and sectorshaped links, the angles of which are held by the pins, and the segments of which are con nected with each other by a coupling-chain, substantially as and for the purpose described.

CHARLES J. GUSTAVESON. 

